A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF LEMENTARY STUDENTS IN CONTEXT OF THEIR GENDER AND LOCALE OF SCHOOLS

Social Emotional well-being has been considered as an important process for developing the essential skills,
attitudes, competencies and knowledge to learn and gain the holistic development of the personality. Even the
New Education Policy talks about the crucial need of Social Emotional Skills at an early stage of children to
live a happy and balanced life. The purpose of this paper is to explore Social emotional well-being (SEC) among
elementary school students of Punjab School Education Board (P.S.E.B.) and to compare the rural and urban
schools of Amritsar district. The nature of study is descriptive in nature and survey method has been used. For
investigation a sample of 200 elementary school students from rural and urban government schools of Amritsar
district has been taken by using simple random technique. For the collection of data social emotional wellbeing/
competence scale was used which was developed by the investigator. The interpretation and analysis of
the results was done by using t-test method. Findings of the study revealed that social emotional well-being
doesn’t depend upon type of school. There exists no significant difference on the basis of type of school. It is also
found that boys in rural and urban areas are more socially emotionally competent as compare to girls.